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Goldfield

Boom town, United States, founded 1902.

About Goldfield

Census-designated place in and county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States.1

Where next

Mines

Worked atSilver PeakSilver Peak lies about 36 km away.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q930361 (Goldfield)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Salar de Atacama, Chile, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)); South Africa: a crowd of people gathered outside The Goldfields offices in Johannesburg. 1896., Unknown (Wellcome Collection) (Public Domain Mark 1.0).